The Pirate Bay condemns Anonymous for Virgin Media DDOS attack

The Pirate Bay has spoken out against hacktivist group Anonymous’ campaign of distributed denial of service attacks (or DDOS, as they’re more commonly known). As previously reported, these attacks attempt to render target websites inaccessible generally by overloading them with traffic.

The latest of these attacks was carried out on Virgin Media this week, after it became the first company to enact a court-ordered block on The Pirate Bay, stopping its customers from accessing the file-sharing site.

In a statement issued via its official Facebook page, The Pirate Bay said: “Seems like some random Anonymous groups have run a DDOS campaign against Virgin Media and some other sites. We’d like to be clear about our view on this: We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us. So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship”.